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Or you could look at it as Python growing up and being used for long lived projects with tens and hundreds of developers of varying skill levels, where you need to do things such as... safely refactor large amounts of code quickly.
It would be a lot harder in the Culture to get someone to be your human footstool.
Already about 10 forks. One with a binary build available and a WebXR port in progress.

There's a very passionate community around Tilt Brush.
It's not that I want it... I'd rather see native (of course), but if it will get us app parity with Windows, so my kids can grow up in Linux and still do O365, I'm happy.
It seems to me the only difference is the number of input values. N inputs latches open (N can be 1).
Best comparison (car/machine manufacturing vs software development) I've ever heard on this topic is as following;

While producing a machine, there are two steps;

1) designing the blueprint (takes a lot of time, unpredictable)

2) mass production (takes a lot of time, predictable)

Those steps in software development;

1) building the software (takes a lot of time, unpredictable)

2) deploying the code (takes virtually no time, predictable)

So the real difference is this: software is almost all about doing something new, each and every time.
It's all flesh and has no bone: e.g. devoid of a long, very stable and predictable mass production stage. It's almost all about R&D, all of it's length. Hence 98% of the process is novel work therefore takes time and hard to predict.
How about an eyeball-seeking laser
You lost me at JavaScript disabled by default. Whilst a noble reach, this doesn't fly in the real world. I had a stint using W3M for browsing for a bit and well, not much flew.

Frugal yes, but it has to work.
> She could have reported it privately, but she chose to use her platform that included her social status ... to be a narc instead.

Reporting it privately is still "narcing", isn't it? You're saying she'd have been ok if she kept her anonymity while doing the snitching that the twitter mob seeks to "cancel" people for? Well sure.
I recently threw https://www.ipfire.org/ onto an old PC to cover router duties for a small biz that had it's current old consumer Netgear die. I was really impressed with Ipfire. Up and running in about 20 minutes.

I was so impressed with it I tried to rationalize just keeping Ipfire duties but transferring it to a much less power hungry device but couldn't find anything that was modern and wasn't a hobbyist kit (like the Apu2). Other than their own licensed devices that were out of their budget (smallest one is $390 and still needs a separate wifi AP).
> When I was playing a Counter Strike web app example posted here a few months ago, it was endlessly frustrating to have Control and W mapped to actions that you may want to perform simultaneously while also not being able to suppress default behavior. I kept accidentally closing the tab as a result...

So play the native version - problem solved.

This drive to accomodate people misusing the web for apps just bloats browsers (making it prohibitively expensive to develop alternative implementations) while adding tons of privacy leaks and attack surface for exploits.
I'm sure it's coming. This market timing is frustrating, though. Especially as it gives mobo vendors (looking at you ASROCK) more slack with getting all their BIOS/UEFI of last-gen models up to date to support them, ever.
Banks' "Orbitals" are smaller rings, perhaps planet-diameter, orbiting at a distance from their star; "Rings" are Niven-Ringworld-style structures with a star in the middle. Spheres are mentioned here and there, I think, just called "spheres".
> safely

You can't. But you can make multiple backups, each one reduces the chance of losing your files. Store at least one backup off site.

Also, media dies over time. Buy new hard disks annually and make them the new backups.
Only vendor-specific code, so it's not that bad. What business do most people have rewriting auth stuff?
I have smaller hands as well and have adapted well to the Moonlander. I have found that I prefer to keep the thumb cluster tilted upwards to reduce the distance to my space/return keys.

Unfortunately this means I can't use the tenting since that requires the thumb cluster to tilt down and act as one of the legs. That's my only real gripe so far.
I want my OS to have me as it's primary focus, not some company.
This?

https://www.amazon.com/Sparco-Computer-Paper-Plain-Inches/dp...
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https://github.com/icosa-gallery/icosa-viewer
Mechanical keys. It feels very great to type with them.
Doesn't work responsively on latest Android Firefox
Yes, I already said a tsunami of developers who do not know how to use python.
You're thinking of it backwards. It's not that you perform a transformative process from real world to formal system, it's that the interaction of the real world and creating the formal system changes your understanding of the problem.

The computer doesn't process reality, but it can keep you honest about what terms you use in your language and how those terms relate to one another. God, I hope we've learned something from all of those disasters.

You don't change the computer to solve your problem. The computer changes your understanding of what the problem is.
Here’s a fork of the Windows compression tool 7-Zip which has LZ4 support baked in along with some other useful algorithms – the repo has a good comparison of them: https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd/

(Linking to this more for the overview than the Windows tool in itself.)
I retract that - if you use the search bar you can get modes of any scale you want, this is fantastic!
Web documents and web apps are getting split anyway with site specific apps, so web browser can focus on text documents just fine.
You must have a special relationship with pain if you'd actually have gone through hitting yourself with a hammer before reading Use of Weapons in its entirety, and finding the former more pleasant. I'd just have stopped reading if I reached that point ;)

Absolutely love the Culture series, by the way. It's a tragedy that Banks died far too young.
> It's a base, mob instinct that has caused riots, factionalism, witch hunts and genocide all throughout human history

This is it. In the last 10 years or so mob instinct has shown up in many ways - in looting stores, in doxing people and cancelling people who say the wrong things, in trying to overthrow governments, or just simple pile-ons. In part this has been fanned by big tech, but not entirely

The trick is tackling the causes of the creation of the mobs. "You're either with us or against us" is not new - Clinton and Bush were using it 20 years ago, but Cicero used it in Rome and it's in the bible. Big Tech is certainly a key part of the creation and expanse as it connects people, and people are encouraged to "pick a side". In traditional discourse what you'd say to your sportsmates up the pub could be a very different conversation to what you say to your collegues at an awayday. With social media, what you say to one, you say to all -- walking between worlds is difficult.

You might agree with group A on one thing (say housing), and group B on another thing (say BLM), and group C on another thing (say economy), but if those don't all align with your side, you won't fit in.
Support for runtimes other than SteamVR is already documented. It was taken out of the build in a way that's trivial to add back in.

However - I can't see anyone bothering to rewrite in Godot. It would be a huge task and Unity is very popular with a fairly liberal usage licence.
As a senior tech, I make it a point to tell any new techs that the only stupid question is the one you don't ask. If ever there was an enemy in life its ignorance. Everyone's situation in life is different, but in the small sphere of influence I have sway over I do my best to make sure no one is made to feel small for asking questions.
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They are Rings but smaller. Culture Rings are like Niven's Ringworld, and go all the way around a star, spinning around the star to simulate gravity. Culture orbitals are also ring-shaped and spinning to simulate gravity, but they're nowhere near as big (relatively speaking; still more surface area than Earth), and generally orbit a star more like a planet does. Culture Spheres are Dyson spheres.
IMO it would show exceedingly bad judgment to ask someone how they voted in an interview. I wouldn’t categorically refuse to hire such a person, but it would be a strike against.
It seems to me like that stance does nothing helpful, only lets the developer off the hook of attempting something difficult and annoying. At the same time, it leaves human users who can't change their browser high and dry.
I love Ted Chiang's works. With Baxter and Robert Chales Wilson he's in my top 5 (SF or not I think) author.

But Ken Liu ? I can't stand. It feels like grandiloquent teen SF to me.

I haven't read enough from Ted Chiang yet (or he hasn't published enough) but Baxter and Wilson seem stuck in their themes of predilection now.
A fried of mine reported scientific misconduct (p-hacking) and, together with a few colleagues, left the research group, due to moral harassment by the head of that group.

The university removed all of them from the research group and said they could continue working on the data because it belongs to the university.

3 months later:

- investigations of scientific fraud against the people leaving (neglecting authorship because the data could after all not be used and the head wanted a say in the articles, i.e., change them completely). Also some random other allegations that didn't stick.

- police investigation of defamation (because they reported the scientific misconduct and some other misleading statements used by the head in sales for a research-related product)

- the university now expects them to contact the head of the ex-research group to clarify questions of authorship

- the head meanwhile continues as before
In the absence of hard, irrefutable and all-encompassing proof, everything is just religion.
Spare me the endless pedantic HN Econ 101 nonsense.

Their taxes are lower in Canada than California and there's less health-care drama, but salaries are much lower.

Your comment is symptomatic of the decline of public discourse. There's 2 people with first-hand knowledge of Canadian culture in this thread, so why not ask questions in good faith?

FYI: the greatest failure in America is the lack of public policy and planning. You can apply whatever pandemic criticism you want equally to education, the military, etc.

If you watch interviews with any US self-made billionaire, their gravest concern is the lack of public policy - it's that glaring when you know where to look.
Maybe it’s because houseplants aren’t a controversial topic. Take any topic where people hold strong opinions (politics, religion, ...) and start following people you agree with. I guarantee you’ll have to very deliberately look for people on the other end of the spectrum at some point because your feed and your follow recommendations will indeed be an echo chamber.
This is where the analogy breaks down somewhat - so I propose you imagine a universe in which `cp` doesn't exist and you have to build each copy of an executable from scratch :).

(Perhaps you're signing each copy with a different key, or something.)

I insist on connecting compilation to construction of individual cars, because the source code corresponds to the engineering plans of a car, and not to the plans of the production process.
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But when you do have proof of growth it’s much easier to finance more developers to work on the problem.
> a world where your Bezoses and your Musks are not just irrelevant, but actively sought out and disempowered by a society comprised of property-less workers and all-caring, mostly-benevolent A.I.s?

Irrelevant maybe, but i dont see how they are disempowered in the Culture books. The culture books are full of busy-bodies trying to change the course of events. I'm sure that would be appealing to CEO types in a post scarcity world.
Yes you do. You will need to share your car with strangers. Some morning you will open the door, see an oily stain from a thai takeaway lunch in the driver's seat and the last 3 people who rented the car will all claim it wasn't them.
This is a good page that shows why JQuery isn't going away anytime soon: http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
Many valid comments and points of view.

This is but one part of it, but what I see is that software has a uniqueness to it because so much of the complexity is hidden. Really, nobody can see it being created except the actual developer building that piece and maybe one level up if they are good enough to review the code. But to everybody else its a mysterious black box. Now this not only hides the complexity but actually amplifies it because at the ground level people are highly incentivised to inject complexity into their work. It feels good to make something complex. You feel productive and it definitely helps your resume if you can claim to have worked on something highly complex. Everybody else is impressed. The team gets more resources to support this amazing thing being created.

So hiding the complexity not only prevents exposure but means many people in the production chain incentivised to create complexity can get away with gratuitously injecting it into things. Whole frameworks will be deployed where 10 lines of code would have worked, new libraries will mysteriously appear and get used for 1 function. Layers of indirection in the design will appear to abstract things that have only 1 concrete implementation. etc etc. All of this is invisible above 1 management layer and therefore unmeasurable and unmanageable. But the outcome is, the end result takes much longer than you would surmise from the bare bones functionality or requirements.
Speaks so out of my heart: We really love Gitlab. But as small, pure development company the pricing of the commercial offerings is (and was) unfeasible for us.

We'd LOVE to have a cheap/free basic Git-Service for all our 100 developer & project participant and have on-demand additional, advanced features like full DevOps for the developers in smaller teams/projects (5~10).

Convincing management to pay $1200/yr – or even $230/yr for just everybody won't work.
Blindsight and Echopraxia are absolutely brilliant accounts of "what happens when you meet someone who is dramatically smarter than yourself". I'm glad someone on HN recommended them to me.
another contender is zstd: https://github.com/facebook/zstd. It typically offers better compression ratios than LZ4 at a slight (depending on your data) cost in speed. Additionally it offers a training mode to tune the algorithm to increase compression ratio on specific types of data, particularly useful for compression of small pieces of data.
I use pydantic all over the place now. FastAPI was what introduced it to me. Its really nice to be able to take advantage of the autocompletion when utilizing pydantic models rather than a straight dictionary. Now, in a lot of instances I use the pydantic models instead of dictionaries as it feels more explicit
I have used an ergodox EZ for a while, loved it, bought a Planck EZ and found out I prefer the smaller keyboard.
Most petrol stations closed in the UK anyway, supermarkets massively undercut them. There's a lot fewer than there were 30 years ago.
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So you lowered your bar huh? Who am I to judge, but I would have preferred a story with something more than the game is rigged and that's what I get to play with
JS is indeed what brought us all the speed in software development. People could prototype their ideas crazy fast, and they still can. Scripting in browser had an immense positive impact on software industry, and that DID come with many negatives, but you always have the option to completely turn it off if those bother you.

A sandboxed environment was a huge idea and the browser has been the primary example of how great it can be. The app model in mobile with permission isolated access is more or less the proprietary re-implementations of the browser sandbox.
I think the point was that we didn't seem to mind that consolidation nor the censorship/biased reporting in those media sources yet want to ask Twittter/Facebook to hold themselves to a new standard.

Is it more because it's conservative views being censored now?
I think you misunderstand. It is disabled by default, you can enable it.

I mostly browse with Javascript disabled and have a shortcut key for enabling it when a site refuses to render.
Lol yep
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BTW, last fall I had a disk drive in a bubblewrap envelope on the edge of the counter. Accidentally knocked it onto the floor. Drive was dead after that.
The US had a literal civil war at one point; the bar is low. Things don't have to be the worst ever to still be concerning.
The really sad thing is that tax in SA is really really easy as a generic employee. Your employer submits all documentation beforehand. You login, verify everything (on what's basically a giant fillable pdf document) vs your own docs and submit.

That's it. But they've always been using Flash, and it seems the system has been getting worse and worse over the last few years.
Julia is cool, but can I have a version where arrays start at zero?
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Only V8, which collected a lot of the people formerly working on the StrongTalk VM. JS is mostly influenced by Scheme, Java and infernal visions.
You're entirely forgetting the benefits.

1) Scientists, hobbyists etc. can be super productive with Python while disregarding types.

2) Software developers can write serious applications with type checking.

Statically typed languages exclude group that benefit from 1).
I remember that as long as I didn't install random crap and did basic maintenance, my Win 9x systems worked like clockwork, with only a reboot every couple of days.

Windows 2000 was the most solid and stable Windows OS I've used, no issues at all with it, even the pre-releases.
Didn't you click the article to see that it has images from them?
Several original devs and various other interested parties are over on Discord discussing future plans: https://discord.gg/GsnAKqwK
You made an open Broadcom firmware?!
> how can we achieve the same in healthcare, that is let outsiders contribute and advance the state of the art?

The Biohacking community is actually really adept, and had made a lot of progress in making Science accessible, prior to COVID you had teams already working together across continents and different time zones. So when someone like Josiah Zayner wanted to tackle a COVID vaccination trial on himself and other biohackers they already had the means and methods ready to go.

The problem is if you want to play by their (academia) rules you're never going to making any inroads, you can't publish and no one will give you a grant for your work, and you're not going to be a chair of anything for your work even if it pans out: but, certain therapies are in development that started off as Biopunk/Biohacker projects.

It's super exciting and hard but also way more work than just BSing your way in academia into a professor role as its all too common occurrence. Professional students becoming mediocre professors was a far worse problem in the Sciences than I could have ever imagined, the one's I really felt bad for were the post docs with actual meaningful research, often with severe social anxiety and poor speaking skills, but were forced to teach undergrad and simply just read the book aloud as 'lecture.' My Organic Chem professor comes to mind, my inorganic professor (did his MSc at Cambridge!) was a rockstar to us undergrads and would do office hours during his lunch hour between lab research and the university made him protest before they'd release back pay during the cuts and layoffs.. it was pathetic and I felt so bad for him, my review was scathing of the University as I left and I've never really forgiven them for that.

Obviously with no VC model in Science to follow for anything but the most brazen outliers (theranos) it's unlikely to happen. Personally I'd volunteer to help middle school or HS kids get involved in plant and Ag science and take some on in culinary if such an Industry still exists in the US after COVID and help them bypass the University track altogether. That is what I focused on after I left working in a lab, but there aren't many avenues for this model to scale to take on massive projects due to a lack of funding. And the money and stability is abysmal, but the Science and fraternity of actual Scientists doing meaningful work is probably more than half of the reason most of us decided to study it in the first place.

Chamath needs to stop pretending to care about politics and solve real problems like funding Community Science wet-labs next to libraries to help the youth care about Science in a meaningful way instead of wasting their time on tik-tok or Instagram with his billions.
Here in South Africa we call all our traffic lights robots (for example turn left at the 3rd robot).

I've no idea how this started.
I would say this is true for any dictatorship or even some authoritarian regimes. How is it related specifically to communism?
Full disclosure: I am a communist.
Did you get a non-programming job to sustain yourself?
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> It typically offers better compression ratios than LZ4 at a slight (depending on your data) cost in speed

Per the table at [0], zstd provides only a slight improvement in compression ratio, and in exchange is about half the speed of lz4.

They both have their place.

0. https://facebook.github.io/zstd/
Yep, Zstd is the spiritual successor to LZ4 and written by the same person (Yann Collet) after they got hired by Facebook.
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> ...anyone in the world could post...

This would be ultimately filled with trolls, nonexperts, and people with an ulterior motive or grudge: so any such effort would be less trustworthy than the original publication.

If you want to find mistakes, you can find one in every paper. The character of the mistakes is important - is it fraud, is it incompetence, does it negate the results? Or is it good science being done by a human? An open website doesn't seem to me likely to be able to draw that out.
> Environmentally, we're entering a very dark period. The falsehoods surrounding climate change will cost us a great deal

Those falsehoods comes mostly from old people watching fox news. Young people who grew up with mostly unfiltered communication on the internet are typically for doing something against climate change. So this only strengthens the point that free flow of information is more desirable than filtered communication.

People who want to manipulate the masses hates this though, so they try to make every argument they can that free flow of information is harmful and we need to stop it. Basically anyone with power have nothing to gain from you and me being able to freely communicate, so they want to reign that in as much as possible. I'm not sure why you want to make the rich and powerful even richer and even more powerful, but that is what you are arguing for.
Yeah. I definitely want to get an electric at some point, but at the moment it's not practical for us (mostly the lack of off-street parking where we live).

If we could charge up at home I think we'd only ever need to charge on route about three or four times a year, when going on holiday. If the car rental industry was a bit more consumer friendly (they seem mostly designed around business use), renting for the holidays would be very appealing.

It will be interesting to see if campsites will let you charge up from their electric hookups. I can see that being a thing in the future.